Symposium on "Freedom of Speech" at Neuer Berliner Kunstverein and  
Kunstverein Hamburg

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Friday, January 21, 2011
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein

7 p.m.
Official welcome by Marius Babias (Neuer Berliner Kunstverein)

7:15 p.m.
I don’t want to hear that kind of language here! Freedom of speech,  
hate speech and the post-sovereign subject
Lecture by Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky (Professor of Gender Studies,  
Bochum/Berlin)

8:15 p.m.
“Freedom of Speech” from a feminist/queer perspective
Panel discussion with Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky (Professor of Gender  
Studies, Bochum/Berlin), Marlene Streeruwitz (writer, Vienna/Berlin),  
Regina Wamper (political scientist, Duisburg)
Moderated by Christiane Ketteler (author, Berlin)

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Saturday, January 22, 2011
Kunstverein Hamburg

2 p.m.
Official welcome by Florian Waldvogel (Kunstverein Hamburg)

2:15 p.m.
Introduction by Regina Wamper (political scientist, Duisburg)

2:30 p.m.
Parrhesia: Daring to speak the truth and the limits of freedom of speech
Lecture by Siegfried Jäger (Professor emeritus of Linguistics and  
Director of the Duisburg Institute of Linguistic and Social Research)

3:30 p.m.
The Legality of the Image
Lecture (in English) by Costas Douzinas (Professor of Law and Director  
of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, University of London)

4:30 p.m.
Freedom of Opinion and the Counterpublic
Discussion between Gabriel Kuhn (author and translator, Stockholm) and  
Mirko Tobias Schäfer (assistant professor of New Media & Digital  
Culture, Utrecht)

5:30 p.m.
Public(ized) Opinion as an Instrument of Normalisation
Lecture by Jürgen Link (Professor emeritus of German Literature,  
Hattingen)

9 p.m.
Drooling in the Buttermilk
Reading by Stermann & Grissemann (comedians, Vienna)

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Please find the abstracts and biography in the attached pdf-file.


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Der Kunstverein, seit 1817.
Beate Anspach
Presse und Öffentlichkeit
Klosterwall 23
20095 Hamburg
Tel. +49(0)40 32 21 58
Fax +49(0)40 32 21 59
www.kunstverein.de

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Freedom of Speech
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Werner Büttner
Die erlösende Eloquenz erprobter Dinge - Jena Paradies revisited
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